Subject(s): Natural resources. -- Sustainable development. -- Economic development. -- Critical parameters in resource-based development models : natural resources, Capital accumulation , structural change and welfare, Sustainability of extractive economies, Human capital growth, Social foundation of poor economic growth in Resource-rich countries -- Long term perspective on and models of Resource-based growth: Natural resource and economic development, Political economy of resource-Abundant states -- Development trajectories of resource- abundant countries : Competitive industrialization with natural resource abundance, Growth collapses with diffuse resources and point resources -- Lessons fro policy reforms : Reforming a small resource-rich developing market economy, Growth , capital accumulation and economic reforms in south Africa, Reforming resource-Abundant transition economies, Nordic perspective on natural abundance